Hacktivism: the Unlocking Ideas Hackathon takes place at Islington Mill on June 7

Celebrity lawyer ‘Mr Loophole’ Nick Freeman’s claims that pedestrians must ‘light up’ at night have been branded ‘ludicrous’ by Manchester Withington MP John Leach.

Simon Martins, 24, was given an eight-month suspended sentence in Manchester Crown Court this week, after knocking down Hyman Steinberg, 82, as he walked to Ohel Torah synagogue on Leicester Road in December 2012.

A boy, 16, has been arrested after five masked men armed with a crowbar and machete stormed a Salford home – the THIRD robbery in the area this week.

Ahmed Al-Khatib, 33, disguised himself with the headscarf of Rania Alayed, 25, and walked away from the crime scene to give CCTV cameras the impression she was still alive

A Salford hold-up victim has told how Tuesday’s knifepoint robbery by an armed gang has left her family in fear for their lives in a recent campaign of terror.

Salford-born Williams is the latest in a line of top-level British athletes to move abroad and lap up the culture in a country that lives and breathes the sport they toil away at for a career.

Two women aged 47 and 23 were also arrested in connection to the May 26 incident that occurred at the Ashley Brook Pub on Liverpool Street where a 49-year-old man was gunned down.

Gerry Ambrose, from Miles Platting, Manchester, has served more than 2,000 kilometres of sausages and a million steaks during his career

Boutique hotel chain Eclectic Hotels has been granted permission to transform a 140-year-old office building into a 40-room boutique hotel in the city centre; set to open in early 2015.

A 17-year-old girl and a 22-year-old man arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder in the Langworthy gun attack in on Monday night have been bailed.